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Chapter 144—What Stands Behind Him
The pressure did not build gradually. It closed in all at once. Kael felt the containment field forming around them, and he understood immediately that this was not the same as before. The two figures did not attempt to isolate Eron or separate them.They moved to remove both of them entirely.Eron felt it too.The air around his body compressed until every breath required effort. The ground beneath his feet cracked again, but this time the destruction did not spread outward.It folded inward.Everything within the expanding field began to collapse toward a single point. “They are not holding back,” Eron said.Kael’s voice remained steady. “They never were.”Eron looked at him. “That is not what this feels like.”Kael did not answer because he knew the difference. The figures raised their hands in perfect synchronization. The distortion around them intensified, and the space itself began to bend visibly.Eron clenched his fists. “What do we do?”Kael exhaled slowly. He had held the li
Chapter 143 — Through the Tear
Kael did not wait for the moment the second presence began to descend and the first figure diverted its attention; he understood that hesitation would cost him everything. The battlefield still trembled under the weight of clashing forces, but Kael no longer treated it as a place to fight.He treated it as an obstacle; he focused on finding Eron. He closed his eyes briefly.The chaos around him did not disappear, but he forced it into the background. He reached past the noise, past the storm, and past the oppressive presence of the two figures.He reached for the connection. It still existed; it had not been severed; it had only been redirected. Kael felt it as a thin thread buried beneath layers of interference. It pulled faintly, but it remained steady.“That is enough,” he said quietly.He opened his eyes.The figure in front of him reacted immediately. “Anomaly recalibration required,” it said.Kael ignored it.He extended his hand. Dark energy gathered around it, but this time, h
Chapter 142—The City That Could Not Hold
The city of Halvane had once been a symbol of order. Its walls had stood for generations, reinforced by faith and power. Its streets had carried merchants, pilgrims, and soldiers who believed that the Church would always protect them.That belief died before the flames arrived.The first signs came as tremors beneath the ground. Citizens paused in the middle of their routines as the stone beneath their feet shifted slightly. Market stalls rattled, glass shattered in narrow windows, and the distant towers swayed just enough to draw attention.At first, people looked upward. They expected another storm; they expected another sign of the gods.What they saw instead was worse.The sky above Halvane fractured.A faint distortion spread across the clouds, and the light beyond it pulsed with unnatural intensity. The same presence that had descended on the battlefield began to bleed outward, reaching places that had never seen direct conflict.Fear spread faster than the tremors.Guards rushe
Chapter 141—The Breaking Point
The moment Eron disappeared, something inside Kael shifted. He did not shout; he did not move immediately. He stood in the center of the ruined battlefield and stared at the space where Eron had been, as if the world might correct itself if he waited long enough.It did not.The storm continued to rage above him. The remaining gods hovered at a distance, uncertain and silent. The figure that had taken Eron stood calmly in front of him, as if nothing significant had occurred.Kael exhaled slowly. The breath did not steady him, but it marked the end of restraint. “You took him,” Kael said.The figure did not react. “Extraction complete,” it repeated.Kael lowered his head slightly. For a brief moment, everything around him seemed distant, the battlefield faded in importance, and the storm became background noise; even the presence of the figure lost its weight.There was only one fact that mattered.Eron was gone.Kael’s fingers curled slowly into fists. “You made a mistake,” he said.T
Chapter 140 — Taken
Kael saw the moment the figure shifted its target, and he moved without hesitation. He drove his power forward and forced his body across the shattered ground with everything he had. However, the distance between intention and impact became too large.The figure’s hand reached Eron first.Eron tried to move, but his body refused. The pressure that had filled the battlefield condensed around him in a single point. It wrapped around his limbs and locked him in place before he could even react.Kael’s strike collided with the figure a fraction of a second later. The impact exploded outward, dark energy clashed against that cold, controlled force, and the shockwave tore through the ruins of the battlefield.Eron was caught in the center of it. The force should have thrown him away. Instead, it held him still. The figure did not move, and Kael’s attack had no effect. Eron felt the hand reach his chest, but it did not touch him physically, but something passed through him. It felt like a cu
Chapter 139—The Hunter Descends
The sky had not settled since the gate opened. Even after the figure stepped fully into the world, the air remained unstable. The storm creature still circled at a distance, and the gods kept their formation, but none of them acted with confidence anymore.Something had changed.Kael felt it clearly. He stood firm, but his focus had shifted. The presence that had entered the world did not behave like the others. It did not spread its influence widely or lash out at everything around it, unlike the chaotic entities they had encountered before.It chose where to look, and now it was looking for something. Eron still stood beside him, although the tension between them remained unspoken; neither of them had moved forward since the moment the figure called out.Kael had not released his grip entirely, and Eron had not tried to pull away again. But, the distance between them had not closed. The connection in the sky still pulsed.Eron kept his eyes on the figure. “It stopped calling,” he sa
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